an important caveat: for all 3 booters in my cd image (bootx, yaboot,
miboot) i specify root=1 in the kernel arguments. you'll probably want to
remove that.
(specifying root allows /linuxrc to be executed; the value '1' is used by
linuxrc to determine that real-root-dev is backward endian, and lin
> I am beginning to think that the better option is a boot CD and a
> second ISO format CD which is not bootable, once your booted you
> remove the boot CD and use the binary CDs which are in ISO format. I
>
> sounds like a plan to me, comments?
if you'd like, you can use the image i've been wor
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 04:24:22PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The other possibility is the 'hybrid' ISO/HFS format -- will Macs boot that
> or is it a no-go?
>
> The nice thing about this is that you'd be able to see the files on the CD
> from MacOS and Linux equally without having to have
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 08:23:56PM -0800, Brad Midgley wrote:
> > The other possibility is the 'hybrid' ISO/HFS format -- will Macs boot that
> > or is it a no-go?
>
> my experience is that new world macs' OF will see the iso side and fail to
> boot because the iso driver is so poor. i haven't tri
> The other possibility is the 'hybrid' ISO/HFS format -- will Macs boot that
> or is it a no-go?
my experience is that new world macs' OF will see the iso side and fail to
boot because the iso driver is so poor. i haven't tried this recently with
yaboot though.
if there's a way to tell OF to try
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:56:24AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > For the "linux" part of the CD, you have several solutions: You can
> > simply have an ext2 image in a big file on the HFS partition and mount it
> > via loopback (slow). You c
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:56:24AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> For the "linux" part of the CD, you have several solutions: You can
> simply have an ext2 image in a big file on the HFS partition and mount it
> via loopback (slow). You can also probably add ext2 partitions using the
> appl
don't be tempted to put in a rock-ridge partition or make it hybrid
though. i found that new-world machines' OF ignores the hfs data if it can
find an iso partition yet they can't properly boot from the iso partition.
ben wrote:
> For the "linux" part of the CD, you have several solutions: You can
i used toast to create a bootable image, but didn't let it optimize so
there's a lot of free space in the hfs partition.
now i can loop-mount it under linux (hfs finds the right partition in the
image to mount) to fix up the content and i don't have to use toast again
(this part does need to be ve
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:56:24AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> If we _really_ want to make something absolutely and completely stripped
> of any Apple code, miBoot should be turned into a fake CD driver burned
> in the disk's partition map. This is possible but more complex and I
> di
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> yaboot is an OpenFirmware executable which loads the linux kernel from
> the ext2 filesystem.
Aha, any chance it also works on CHRP boxes. Hartmut, did you ever try?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- [EMAIL PROT
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>doesn't Miboot also require non-free Apple bootblock code in the 1K
>bootblock of the HFS partition?
Hum... the status of this bootblock code is difficult to determine. It's
only a few bytes of 68k assembly that calls the ROM _InitFS
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 11:41:12AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > Is Yaboot required ? I assume this is the equivalent of lilo on a x86
> > machine.
>
> yaboot is more like loadlin; quik is the equivalent for lilo.
actually no, BootX is more like loadlin,
loadlin: a DOS application which
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 01:18:06AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:34:14AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> >
> > Are the boot disks going to be "ready" for the upcoming relesae of
> > powerpc-potato in February (it is still February isn't it ?) ?
>
> Looks like it.
>
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:34:14AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote:
>
> Are the boot disks going to be "ready" for the upcoming relesae of
> powerpc-potato in February (it is still February isn't it ?) ?
>
> I want to buy a PowerBook but am waiting for Debian to be officially
> released and with boo
> Is Yaboot required ? I assume this is the equivalent of lilo on a x86
> machine.
yaboot is more like loadlin; quik is the equivalent for lilo.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:34:14AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote:
>
> Are the boot disks going to be "ready" for the upcoming relesae of
> powerpc-potato in February (it is still February isn't it ?) ?
Looks like it.
> Is Yaboot required ? I assume this is the equivalent of lilo on a x86
> machi
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